Therapeutic apparatus.



J. H. NEEL.

THBRAPEUTIO APPABATUS.

APPLICATION PILED mm: 3,1913.

1,120,964 Patented Dec. 15, 1914.

JOHN H. NEEL, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

THERAPEUTIC APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patet.

Patented Dec, 15, 1914.

Application filed .Tune 3, 1913. Serial No. ?71,427.

' '0 all 'who/n. 'it may cowcrn Be it known that I, JOHN H. NEEL, acitizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county ofLos Angeles and State of California, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Therapeutic Apparatus, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to therapeutie ap paratus, and the principalobject is to provide a magnetic device in which a person may besubjected to the lines of force formed between a series of magnets.

It is also an object to provide means for adjusting the relation of themagnets so that the latter may be arranged to accommodate persons ofdifferent size.

It is a further object to provide a magnetic device of the abovecharacter on a movable base so that it can be readily adjusted.

In the drawings accompanying this specification and forming therewiththe application for Letters Patent: Figure l is a front elevation of thedevice, showing the diagrammatic arrangement of the wiring connectedtherewith. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the structure showing the adjustedposition in dotted lines. Fig. 3 is a perspective detail of one of themagnetic windings.

More specifically in the drawings, 5 designates a base formed of twoparts aeting as a fioor upon which a person may stand, the lower portion6 of this floor being proied with a plurality of supporting castors "i".This lower plate forming the floor is reeessd or rabbeted for a greaterportion of its surface 'and is adapted to receive a movable section 8which is provided with a longitudinally disposed slot 9 which ex-.

tends from its inner edge outward and is adapted to form a slidingconnection with the bolt 10 which is threaded into the lower section 6at a suitable point so that the section of the floor 8 may be slidablyadjusted in relation to the plate 6. Mounted upon the unrecessed uppersurface of the plate 6 is an upright standard 11 preferably located nearthe outer edge of the plate and formed either of soft iron or built upof laminated strips having a plurality of extensions 12, 14: and 15,which are preferably formed as cubical bodies. Suitable brackets 16secure and support this standard in relation to the plates G and theoppositely disposed end of the plate 8 is similarly provided withbrackets 17 which support and hold in the same relation on this plate 8a standard 18 similar to the standard 11 and having its cubicalextensions in the same plane and registering with those on the standardll. Mounted on each one of these cubical extensions and acting as asupport therefor are winding drums 19 having a winding 20 thereon ofsuitable insulated wire, the central aperture through these drums havingthe same conguration as the cubical extensions so that they fit thereon,and the free ends of the wire forming the coils may be joined to thewiring of the adjacent coils to form a series of independent electricmagnets. For convenience in description each one of these coils as shownin Fig. l is designated 21, 22 and 23 being mounted on the extensions onthe standard 11 with their windings joined in series, the upper coil 23on the standard ll being joined by the wire 24 to the coil 25 on theupper extension of the standard 18,

this coil 25 being connected in series with the coils 26 and 27 on thenext sueceeding extensions on the core 18. The wire 28 connects the coil27 to a switch 30, the wire 29 connecting the coil 21 to the oppositelydisposed connection on the same double pole switch. The other twoconnections on this switch are connected by wires 31 and 32 to a directcurrent generator 33 having a shunt wiring 34 with a rheostat 35connected in the generator winding eircuit.

The series of coils on one standard are preferably arranged so that thepolarities are alternated as shown in the drawings, the

oppositely disposed coil affecting the cubical core being so arrangedthat its magnetie pole is of the opposite polarity, and so on insuccession so that the lines of force may travel from one pole to theoppositely disposed pole, and a patient standing on the floorintermediate of these poles will be bathed and saturated with themagnetic influence. As clearly shown in Fig. 2the plate 8 and itsstandard 18 may be adjusted longitudinally to aceomodate any variationsdesired'to bring the magnet poles closer together or disposed at agreater distance a found necessary.

What I claim is:

1. A therapeutic device of the character described,'comprising a baseformed of a plurality of overlappng members, a slot being formed in oneof said members, a screw supported in the other of said members toadjust said members in relation to each 10&

other, an iron standard mounted on each of .said members, havingextensions formed thereon and adapted to register with exte'' sons onthe oppositely disposed standard, coils of Wire mounted on each of saidextensons, and means to electrcally energize said f base havingextensions outwardly disposed therefrom and registering on theoppositely disposedstandards, coils of Wire mounted on said extensions,means to adjust said standards' to and away from each other and means toconnect said coils to 'a source of electrical energy, whereby saidstandards are converted into electro-magnets and the lines of forcearedistributed across the interval between said supporting extensions.

'3.' A magnetic device of 7 the characterdescribed comprising a baseformed of a plurality bf members, means to adjust said members inrelation to each other, a metallic'standard mounted on each of saidmember chical extensionsforned on said metalhcstandard and adapted toregister With extensions onthe'oppostely disposed standard, coils ofwire mounted on'each of said extensions, and means to connect said coilsso thatthe magnetic poles formed by the flow of 'electric currentthroughsaid coils -Will be oppositely disposed on each standard and theoppositely disposed extensions so that lines of` 'magnetic force Willextend across the area between the opposed poles.

In Witness that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto subscribed my namethis 24th day of May,*1913.' e

` Witnesses MERLE HAMMOND, MARIEE BATTE

